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Voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP) is a methodology and group of technologies for the delivery of voice communications and multimedia sessions over Internet Protocol (IP) networks, such as the Internet. Other terms commonly associated with VoIP are IP telephonyInternet telephonyvoice over broadband (VoBB), broadband telephonyIP communications, and broadband phone service.

The term Internet telephony specifically refers to the provisioning of communications services (voice, fax, SMS, voice-messaging) over the public Internet, rather than via the public switched telephone network (PSTN). The steps and principles involved in originating VoIP telephone calls are similar to traditional digital telephony and involve signaling, channel setup, digitization of the analog voice signals, and encoding. Instead of being transmitted over a circuit-switched network, however, the digital information is packetized, and transmission occurs as IP packets over a packet-switched network. Such transmission entails careful considerations about resource management different from time-division multiplexing (TDM) networks.

Protocols

Voice over IP has been implemented in various ways using both proprietary protocols and protocols based on open standards. Examples of the VoIP protocols are:

  • H.323
  • Media Gateway Control Protocol (MGCP)
  • Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)
  • H.248 (also known as Media Gateway Control (Megaco))
  • Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP)
  • Real-time Transport Control Protocol (RTCP)
  • Secure Real-time Transport Protocol (SRTP)
  • Session Description Protocol (SDP)
  • Inter-Asterisk eXchange (IAX)
  • Jingle XMPP VoIP extensions
  • Skype protocol
  • Teamspeak

The H.323 protocol was one of the first VoIP protocols that found widespread implementation for long-distance traffic, as well as local area network services. However, since the development of newer, less complex protocols such as MGCP and SIP, H.323 deployments are increasingly limited to carrying existing long-haul network traffic. In particular, the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) has gained widespread VoIP market penetration.

These protocols can be used by special-purpose software, such as Jitsi, or integrated into a web page (web-based VoIP), like Google Talk.

VoIP stands for Voice over Internet Protocol
VoIP is a telephone connection that uses internet instead of the regular telephone network.
VoIP saves your money
Portability – Take It Where You Go
Compatible with legacy telephony network
VoIP includes all those features that the normal telephone company provides .